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Don't forget neovim.

I knew this article would be a mess when I saw the word, "donation" in the link title.

And before China you had Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.

I thought there was a way to fatally catapult them into a neighboring park and then, because they died there, the game engine would penalize that park for killing its guests. But I might be thinking of a different amusement park simulator.

Congratulations on making it on to @shit_hn_says!

https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/463711610172088320

But taking a dive doesn't cause stat damage, except to your HP. Unless the mushroom people drain levels.

I actually saw "All the Little People" as an advanced version of The Sims.

"Stats" were a sports thing before there were video games, or even before integrated circuits.

"Don't give non-employees admin privileges on your system" doesn't really sound like an HR policy. It would have been a good policy, though.

Drug development is extremely risky. A privately run prison is pretty much a government money spigot.

You can register your address at ups.com and have them reroute or hold it before the first attempt.

"Back in 9/26/95, the Backspace key was mapped for go up one directory in Windows Explorer. This could be the reason why Microsoft also used the Backspace key on their IE for back/up a page. Of course, this is pure speculation on my part :)"

So this is leftover damage from Microsoft's bizarre campaign to fuse Internet Explorer with Windows Explorer? Why do I suddenly want to hurt someone?

The multithreading situation in Haskell is pretty exciting. Simon Marlow's Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell is the best new programming book I've picked up in a long time. And there are new developments since he wrote it (http://www.haskellcast.com/episode/004-simon-marlow-on-paral...). It would be a shame to give all that up.

It was. Glimcat's comment got me thinking in that direction, and I couldn't resist.

When you think you're done, gradually decrease the temperature of the room. People will become uncomfortable and leave, even if it means accepting a sub-optimal solution.

If Edmunds is carrying water for the dealerships, they've been very subtle about it. http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales...

If you're talking about getting it to compile...

If foo is giving you problems, write it as

   foo :: (the type you think it should have)
   foo = undefined

If it compiles you at least know your type is right. Then, leaving the type annotation in place, replace undefined with a more useful expression. (Soon we will all be using Type Holes instead of this trick.)

I like hdevtools for mark-errors-on-save. I don't know if there's an emacs hook for it, but it's emacs so probably.

If you're talking about debugging after it compiles... I'm still working on that. I spent part of this past weekend digging into QuickCheck.

This is more like a reverse moat: you only have to pay it after you succeed. New entrants don't have to pay the tax -- peering without money changing hands will happen to "just work" for them just like it used to. Only after they get big will Comcast create a new traffic jam and send them a quote to fix it -- that's too late to help Netflix.

"-Wall" actually means, "all warnings, as of the date we froze the definition of -Wall, which for all you know was 20 years ago, good luck."

The passive voice has its place. But sentences in the form, "x is something that is y," are difficult to defend. Just write "Passive is important in good writing."

(Even worse: https://twitter.com/Graham_LRR/status/387778330054774784 )

Actually, there are surprisingly large and persistent differences between hospitals in their complication rates for various surgeries. It is fueling a debate about how to evaluate them and how to promote the methodologies of the more effective places. Not really all that different from the software industry.

Yeah, it reads more like an explanation than a rebuttal.

Most large companies self-insure. They just hire a "health insurance" company to administer the plan.

In business, non-programmers love telling coders what to code, how to code, and how long it should take. So this may actually provide students excellent training for the real world.

A classic mistake. Even Gregor Mendel may have committed it.

On that note, even Bush got nominated at least once... for not not being Bush.

The late-90s project I'm thinking of was called picoJava. Apparently it lives on in some form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-237302.html

http://www.javaworld.com/article/2077295/sun-s-picojava-i-co...

The Java Chips are here! I remember reading about these back in the day. (Byte cover story, November 1996).

If I ever lose the right to buy cough syrup, I might win it back by voting.

If I ever lose the right to vote, can I win it back by buying cough syrup?

More like the bête noire of the Mars-exploration party. If you're going to the Moon you're not going to Mars.